Maybe Obama will suggest Christians pay reparations to Muslims for the Crusades

NRO:Let’s leave the Middle Ages out of discussions of modern Islam.
. . . "Protestants and Catholics follow different versions of Christianity, but we would strongly reject a president who tried to tell us which was right. By the same token, the president has even less authority to discern true from distorted Islam. ISIS is barbaric, but there is no denying that its adherents believe they are true followers of Islam. And they can point to medieval Muslim rulers who were just as bloody." 

Ralph Peters: Jihadis 14, Crusaders 2; The president perverts history (again).  . . . "The president knows as little about history as he does about warfare, and even less about religion. But he’s not alone. With the Left’s successful destruction of history instruction in our schools and universities, even “well-educated” creatures of Washington accept the Arab fantasy that the cultural incompetence, practical indolence, and spiritual decay of the entire Middle East stems from Richard Coeur de Lion’s twelfth-century swordplay.

"Stop it! All of you! And try reading a book or two on the subject. Meanwhile, here’s a starter course in the vast tragedy jihad has posed for every civilization it’s touched for the past 14 centuries — while the Crusades mythologized by Islam’s apologists were a two-century blip whose only practical legacies are a few ruined castles." . . .

Chip Bok: Man on a high horse  . . . "Our philosopher king’s prayer breakfast lecture on Thursday could have been mistaken for talking points straight out of the Islamic State. He called on Christians to get off their high horse about man burning ISIS jihadis. He then reminded them that Crusaders did bad things in the name of Christ. A thousand years ago." . . .

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Dr. Ben Carson Reacts to Obama’s Prayer Breakfast Speech: “Perhaps We’re Being Betrayed”  . . . "In response to how he reacted to the president’s remarks as a Christian, Carson said, “obviously, it makes me feel that perhaps we’re being betrayed. perhaps we don’t have a leader who feels the same about things as most of us do, but the good thing is, we have a system in place, that has allowed us to take control."

Pat Condell on the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe

Pat Condell; A Special Kind Of Hate  "It is only been 70 years since the Holocaust and now Europeans and liberal professors and students have gone to the streets screaming:  "Jews to the Gas!".  Muslim anti-Semitism in Europe."

New weapon in our war against radical Islam: "Strategic Patience"

This feckless president Obama has spent the past 6+ years blaming the previous administration for his own failures. If he just keeps voting "present" till 2017, Obama can live out his life blaming the next president for botching the foreign policy triumphs he passed on. TD 

https://scottthong.wordpress.com/tag/obama-surge/

Rick Moran: Forget 'lead from behind'; now we have 'strategic patience'

"President Obama released his new national security blueprint on Friday that was rehash of most of his previous policies.  He cited progress against the Islamic State and identified Russia as a major concern.

"But foreign policy experts are raising an eyebrow over the president's call for "strategic patience" and warning against American "overreach."
. . .
"This sort of inattentiveness to potential crises has been a hallmark of this administration since 2009.  It's no secret that the president would like foreign crises to go away so he can devote all his energies to transforming America.  We all had better hope that the world doesn't go to hell in the next two years."  Read more.

Obama's "strategic patience" draws criticism amid ISIS threat  . . . "The 29-page document is meant to serve as a blueprint for Obama's final two years in office. The strategy cast the U.S. as an indispensable force in combating global challenges -- including terrorism, climate change and cyber threats. ' . . . 

[Susan Rice] defended the administration's pursuit of a international negotiations to roll back Iran’s nuclear program: "We must give diplomacy a chance to finish the job," she said

The king of Jordan wasn't into "strategic patience"   "Swift Action vs. No Action; I applauded late last night when I heard the news that Jordan had executed by hanging two Islamic terrorists in retaliation for the horrific murder by fire of the pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh. Jordan didn't talk about measured responses, or restraint, or a backlash -- they took decisive action. It made Obama look even worse."

Jordan's hand is strengthened by not having Code Pink or Michael Moore in the country.

Teacher quits French school over ‘insidious Islamism’

France24

. . . "Zitouni, who is of Algerian descent and began teaching philosophy (which is compulsory for all high-school students in France) at Averroès in September, wrote that he could no longer tolerate the school’s alleged contradictions with France’s strictly secular “Republican values”.

“ 'The reality is that Averroès Lycée is a Muslim territory that is being funded by the state,” he wrote. “It promotes a vision of Islam that is nothing other than Islamism. And it is doing it in an underhand and hidden way in order to maintain its [80 percent] state funding.”. . . 

You stand against Islam, you better be prepared to pay the price:

The school’s director, El Hassane Oufker, told FRANCE 24 the school’s staff and student body were “hugely shocked and upset” by Zitouni’s comments and said that he would be suing him for defamation.

The Week in Pictures: Fraudcast News Edition

Power Line  "Did I ever tell you about the time I was hanging with Pablo Picasso, quaffing espresso at a Parisian cafe, and how I helped him conceive Guernica?  Oh, wait—no, I didn’t do that.  I had Picasso confused with my kid’s kindergarten finger painting project, and we were in McDonalds.  So easy to get these kind of things confused when you’re a busy newsman.."

The world award for congeniality goes to...

http://www.gocomics.com/patoliphant/2015/01/08

Charlie Hebdo, Muslims, and Satire  ". . . All this awfulness is seemingly the cause of some obnoxious satire by a French weekly. The West has a long tradition of satirizing both society and government: Aristophanes, Plautus, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Pope and more have all served in the unappreciated satirist’s role. . . .Despite the ire it may draw, satire plays an important role in society: when a society takes itself too seriously, its members are liable to become sensitive to the slightest insult and seek revenge upon anyone who makes them feel belittled or insulted.. . . "